Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Template Revamping

I'm trying out a version of Hackosphere's NEO template, which should make it faster and easier to navigate between posts. Let me know what you think.

Update: Added sidebar poll.

I've also (somewhat haphazardly) categorized around 600 old posts. The rest can be found under the "compendia" category (as I maintained manually updated "category" posts for my first year or so of blogging).

Finally, I've replaced the old 'blogroll' with a list of 'neighbours' (i.e. people I tend to argue with!). I expect it'll change over time. Feel free to email if I've missed you out.

Now actually the other thing is that your guest blogger posts are coming across as if you had posted them rather than your guests.

Since I am guessing the "Posted by Richard" is part of the template or picked up from the feed in a way that would be a hassle to change. The easiest work around would be just to add a By XXXXXX at the end of each of your guest's posts.

"The easiest work around would be just to add a By XXXXXX at the end of each of your guest's posts."

Thanks David, I'll get right on to that!

Hallq - yeah, it's a pity that "back" buttons don't work with this template. But it's easy enough to navigate manually (i.e. find the old post in the "recent posts" list, or whatever category you came from) that it hopefully won't prove too inconvenient.

It's possible, but the left-to-right direction allow for more intuitive navigation. Still, I might experiment a bit over the next couple of days just to see.

What most annoys me with the new template is that the post area is too narrow! I would rather condense it down to just one sidebar, and use all the extra space for my posts. I don't know how easy that will be, though...

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